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From Out of Character (Inaction Figures) at transit gallery
Ceramic Sculpture with Acrylic Finish
2005
The Icelandic horse is a breed of horse developed in Iceland. Although the horses are small, at times pony-sized, most registries for the Icelandic refer to it as a horse. Icelandic horses are long-lived and hardy. In their native country they have few diseases; Icelandic law prevents horses from being imported into the country and exported animals are not allowed to return. The Icelandic displays two gaits in addition to the typical walk, trot, and canter/gallop commonly displayed by other breeds. The only breed of horse in Iceland, they are also popular internationally, and sizable populations exist in Europe and North America. The breed is still used for traditional farm work in its native country, as well as for leisure, showing, and racing.
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Hasbro Inaction figure. It is likely that DC Direct has done an additional 200 in the past five years. At least the DC Direct Batman figures are unlikely to be turquoise or fuchsia, unless some trendy comic book artist has him wearing such a get up. I'd buy that comic only if Grant Morrison wrote it or Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams. George Perez definitely, but that's it!
This shot captured in Masai Mara Oct 2012 again shows the inaction between the lioness and the cubs...a form of bonding action between the pride...here the two cubs are joined by one of the lioness in play action....a beautiful site to see the lioness placing its paw on the head of one of the cubs...
En photo et vidéo, rétrospective d'une connexion rouennaise sur le PGC blog : photograffcollectif.blogspot.com/2011/01/connexion-rouenn...
Australian school students striking & organising to demand real action on the climate crisis
www.facebook.com/StrikeClimate/
www.instagram.com/schoolstrikeforclimate/
“We are striking from school to tell our politicians to take our futures
seriously and treat climate change for what it is - a crisis.” School Strike 4 Climate
Photo by Stephen Hass – Using Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
Over 330,000 strike on Friday in Australia doubling the March 2019 protests.
Students, workers and people all ages in 115+ Australian cities & towns.
Potentially over 4 million people globally will participate in world's largest climate mobilisation.
“The strike comes three days before world leaders meet in New York for the United Nations Emergency Climate Summit. Scott Morrison will not attend the UN summit despite being in New York at the same time meeting with Donald Trump.” www.schoolstrike4climate.com/post/biggest-climate-mobilis...
“Politicians can show us that they care by taking urgent action to meet our demands:
One: No new coal, oil and gas projects, including the Adani mine.
Two: 100% renewable energy generation & exports by 2030
Three: Fund a just transition & job creation for all fossil-fuel workers & communities.”
School Strike 4 Climate
7 continents
150+ countries
5000+ Strikes
90 Unions
4 Global Union Federations
School Strike 4 Climate
“Climate change is one of the biggest problems facing the world and it isn’t being addressed quickly enough.” School Strike 4 Climate
UPDATE BELOW: 25 September 2019
“Greenhouse gas emissions have been rising in Australia since the Coalition repealed Labor’s carbon price despite the country’s commitments to reduce pollution under the Paris agreement. Total national emissions have increased each year since 2014.” www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/sep/25/morrison-r...
“Diplomatic officials from countries that I speak with see Australia as a denialist government,” he said. “It’s just accepted that’s what it is. It is seen as doing its own promotion of coal and natural gas against the science.” www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/sep/25/australian...
“Scott Morrison is increasingly seen as running a “denialist government” that is not serious about finding a global climate solution and uses “greenwash” to meet its emissions commitments, analysts and former diplomats say.” www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/sep/25/australian...
“Richie Merzian, a former climate diplomat who now works at progressive thinktank the Australian Institute, said Australia was seen by other countries as denying the severity of the problem and in engaging in “greenwashing” by using accounting tricks to meet targets while actual emissions increased.” www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/sep/25/australian...
“A report backed by the world’s major climate science bodies released on the eve of the summit found current plans would lead to a rise in average global temperatures of between 2.9C and 3.4C by 2100, a shift likely to bring catastrophic change across the globe.” www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/sep/25/australian...
Critical News Update 21 July 2021 : Great Barrier Reef could soon be listed as ‘in danger’ by the World Heritage Committee.
www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/21/coalition-bel...
Critical News Update 23 July 2021 :
www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/23/whether-or-no...
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On a cold and overcast day thousands of people around Australia gathered to protest the inaction of State and Federal Politicians on reducing carbon emissions.
On June 13, 2009 thousands of people rallied for action on Climate Change. On a cold and bleak Melbourne winter day thousands gathered at the State Library where they heard from Greens Senator Bob Brown and 'Climate Codered' author and climate activist David Spratt, and other speakers. Leaving the State Library, people marched down Swanston Street to the front of the Melbourne Town Hall where the crowd was asked to do a sitdown protest. Inside the Town Hall the Victorian State Conference of the Australian Labor Party was meeting. A woman from Tuvalu spoke on the rising seas threat to her country and other low lying nations. Damien Lawson, National Climate Change Co-ordinator for Friends of the Earth spoke on the need for a campaign of popular civil disobedience if politicians continue taking no action or ineffectual action to rapidly decrease carbon emissions. The march then continued to Treasury Gardens.
See Videos of speeches outside the Town Hall and in the Treasury Gardens at Engagemedia or on my Youtube channel:
* Climate Emergency: Damien Lawson calls for Civil Disobedience Campaign for action on Climate Change
* Climate Emergency: thousands march in Melbourne calling for action
The Korean War Veterans Memorial was authorized by Public Law 99-572 on Oct. 28, 1986 "…to honor members of the United States Armed Forces who served in the Korean War, particularly those who were killed in action, are still missing inaction, or were held as prisoners of war." The law established an advisory board of 12 veterans appointed by the president to coordinate all aspects of the memorial’s construction. The site is located adjacent to the Lincoln Memorial directly across the reflecting pool from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The American Battle Monuments Commission managed the project and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provided assistance. The architect of record is Cooper Lecky Architects. President Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young Sam dedicated the memorial on July 27, 1995. Since the dedication several modifications have been incorporated: a kiosk to provide shelter for National Park Service personnel and a computer system with data housing the "Honor Role," which was accessible to the public. Correcting accessibility issues and replacement of the lighting in the statuary and along the mural wall with a state-of-the-art fiber optic system were required. Reconstruction of the pool and tree grove by the National Park Service and Corps of Engineers to improve tree maintenance and operate the reflecting pool was completed in July 1999. The overall cost There are 19 statues sculpted by Frank Gaylord of Barre, Vt., and cast by Tallix Foundries of Beacon, N.Y. They are approximately 7’3" tall, heroic scale and consist of 14 Army, 3 Marines, 1 Navy, 1 Air Force. They represent an ethnic cross section of America with 12 Caucasian, 3 African American, 2 Hispanic, 1 Oriental, 1 Indian (Native American).Three of the statues are in the woods, so if you are at the flagpole looking through the troops, you can't tell how many there are, and could be legions emerging from the woods. The statues are made of stainless steel, a reflective material that when seen in bright sunlight causes the figures to come to life. The blowing ponchos give motion to the column, so you can feel them walking up the hill with the cold winter wind at their backs, talking to one another. At nighttime the fronts of the statues are illuminated with a special white light; the finer details of the sculpture are clearly seen and the ghosts appear.
The juniper bushes are meant to be symbolic of the rough terrain encountered in Korea, and the granite stripes of the obstacles overcome in war. The Marines in column have the helmet chin straps fastened and helmet covers. Three of the Army statues are wearing paratrooper boots and all equipment is authentic from the Korean War era (when the war started most of the equipment was WWII issue). for the design and construction of the memorial and kiosk was $16.5 million.
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This devotional service is a sort of cultivation. It is not simply inaction for people who like to be inactive or devote their time to silent meditation. There are many different methods for people who want this, but cultivation of Krishna consciousness is different. The particular word used by Srila Rupa Gosvami in this connection is anusilana or cultivation by following the predecessor teachers (acaryas). As soon as we say "cultivation," we must refer to activity. Without activity, consciousness alone cannot help us. All activities may be divided into two classes: one class may be for achieving a certain goal, and the other may be for avoiding some unfavorable circumstance. In Sanskrit, these activities are called pravriti and nirvriti-positive and negative action. There are many examples of negative action. For instance, a diseased person has to be cautious and take medicine in order to avoid some unfavorable illness.
Those who are cultivating spiritual life and executing devotional service are always engaged in activity. Such activity can be performed with the body or with the mind. Thinking, feeling and willing are all activities of the mind, and when we will to do something, the activity comes to be manifest by the gross bodily senses. Thus, in our mental activities we should always try to think of Krishna and try to plan how to please Him, following in the footsteps of the great acaryas and the personal spiritual master. There are activities of the body, activities of the mind and activities of speech. A Krishna conscious person engages his words in preaching the glories of the Lord. This is called kirtana. And by his mind a Krishna conscious person always thinks of the activities of the Lord-as He is speaking on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra or engaging in His various pastimes in Vrindavana with His devotees. In this way one can always think of the activities and pastimes of the Lord. This is the mental culture of Krishna consciousness.
Similarly, we can offer many services with our bodily activities. But all such activities must be in relationship with Krishna. This relationship is established by connecting oneself with the bona fide spiritual master, who is the direct representative of Krishna in disciplic succession. Therefore, the execution of Krishna conscious activities with the body should be directed by the spiritual master and then performed with faith. The connection with the spiritual master is called initiation. From the date of initiation by the spiritual master, the connection between Krishna and a person cultivating Krishna consciousness is established. Without initiation by a bona fide spiritual master, the actual connection with Krishna consciousness is never performed.
This cultivation of Krishna consciousness is not material. The Lord has three general energies-namely the external energy, the internal energy and the marginal energy. The living entities are called marginal energy, and the material cosmic manifestation is the action of the external, or material, energy. Then there is the spiritual world, which is a manifestation of the internal energy. The living entities, who are called marginal energy, perform material activities when acting under the inferior, external energy. And when they engage in activities under the internal, spiritual energy, their activities are called Krishna conscious. This means that those who are great souls or great devotees do not act under the spell of material energy, but act instead under the protection of the spiritual energy. Any activities done in devotional service, or in Krishna consciousness, are directly under the control of spiritual energy. In other words, energy is a sort of strength, and this strength can be spiritualized by the mercy of both the bona fide spiritual master and Krishna.
In the Caitanya-caritämåta, by Krishnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, Lord Caitanya states that it is a fortunate person who comes in contact with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna. One who is serious about spiritual life is given by Krishna the intelligence to come in contact with a bona fide spiritual master, and then by the grace of the spiritual master one becomes advanced in Krishna consciousness. In this way the whole jurisdiction of Krishna consciousness is directly under the spiritual energy-Krishna and the spiritual master. This has nothing to do with the material world. When we speak of "Krishna" we refer to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, along with His many expansions. He is expanded by His plenary parts and parcels, His differentiated parts and parcels and His different energies. "Krishna," in other words, means everything and includes everything. Generally, however, we should understand "Krishna" to mean Krishna and His personal expansions. Krishna expands Himself as Baladeva, Sankarsana, Vasudeva, Aniruddha, Pradyumna, Rama, Nrsimha and Varaha, as well as many other incarnations and innumerable Visnu expansions. These are described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam to be as numerous as the uncountable waves. So Krishna includes all such expansions, as well as His pure devotees. In the Brahma-samhita it is stated that Krishna's expansions are all complete in eternity, blissfulness and cognizance.
Devotional service means to prosecute Krishna conscious activities which are favorable to the transcendental pleasure of the Supreme Lord, Krishna, and any activities which are not favorable to the transcendental favor of the Lord cannot be accepted as devotional service. For example, great demons like Ravana, Kamsa and Hiranyakasipu were always thinking of Krishna, but they were thinking of Him as their enemy. This sort of thinking cannot be accepted as bhakti, or Krishna consciousness.
The impersonalists sometimes misunderstand devotional service in such a way that they divide Krishna from His paraphernalia and pastimes. For example, the Bhagavad-gita is spoken on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra, and the impersonalists say that although Krishna is of interest, the Battlefield of Kuruksetra isn't. The devotees, however, also know that the Battlefield of Kuruksetra by itself has nothing to do with their business, but in addition they know that "Krishna" does not mean just Krishna alone. He is always with His associates and paraphernalia. For instance, if someone says, "Give something to eat to the man with the weapons," the eating process is done by the man and not by the weapons. Similarly, in Krishna consciousness, a devotee may be interested in the paraphernalia and locations-such as the Battlefield of Kuruksetra-which are associated with Krishna, but he is not concerned with simply any battlefield. He is concerned with Krishna-His speech, His instructions, etc. It is because Krishna is there that the battlefield is so important.
This is the summary understanding of what Krishna consciousness is. Without this understanding one is sure to misunderstand why the devotees are interested in the Battlefield of Kuruksetra. One who is interested in Krishna becomes interested in His different pastimes and activities.
The definition of a pure devotee, as given by Rupa Gosvami in Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu, can be summarized thus: his service is favorable and is always in relation to Krishna. In order to keep the purity of such Krishna conscious activities, one must be freed from all material desires and philosophical speculation. Any desire except for the service of the Lord is called material desire. And "philosophical speculation" refers to the sort of speculation which ultimately arrives at a conclusion of voidism or impersonalism. This conclusion is useless for a Krishna conscious person. Only rarely by philosophical speculation can one reach the conclusion of worshiping Vasudeva, Krishna. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita itself. The ultimate end of philosophical speculation, then, must be Krishna, with the understanding that Krishna is everything, the cause of all causes, and that one should therefore surrender unto Him. If this ultimate goal is reached, then philosophical advancement is favorable, but if the conclusion of philosophical speculation is voidism or impersonalism, that is not bhakti.
Karma, or fruitive activities, are sometimes understood to be ritualistic activities. There are many persons who are very much attracted by the ritualistic activities described in the Vedas. But if one becomes attracted simply to ritualistic activities without understanding Krishna, his activities are unfavorable to Krishna consciousness. Actually, Krishna consciousness can be based simply on hearing, chanting, remembering, etc. Described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam are nine different processes, besides which everything done is unfavorable to Krishna consciousness. Thus, one should always be guarding against falldowns.
Srila Rupa Gosvami has also mentioned in this definition of bhakti the word jnana-karmadi. This karmadi (fruitive work) consists of activities which are unable to help one attain to pure devotional service. Many forms of so-called renunciation are also not favorable to Krishna conscious devotional service.
Srila Rupa Gosvami has also quoted a definition from the Narada-pancaratra, as follows: "One should be free from all material designations and, by Krishna consciousness, must be cleansed of all material contamination. He should be restored to his pure identity, in which he engages his senses in the service of the proprietor of the senses." So when our senses are engaged for the actual proprietor of the senses, that is called devotional service. In our conditional state, our senses are engaged in serving these bodily demands. When the same senses are engaged in executing the order of Krishna, our activities are called bhakti.
As long as one identifies himself as belonging to a certain family, a certain society or a certain person, he is said to be covered with designations. When one is fully aware that he does not belong to any family, society or country, but is eternally related to Krishna, he then realizes that his energy should be employed not in the interests of so-called family, society or country, but in the interests of Krishna. This is purity of purpose and the platform of pure devotional service in Krishna consciousness.
~ Excerpt from Introduction to Nectar of Devotion © Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
A protest called by Uni Students For Climate Justice in Melbourne, forming part of a COP26 Global Day of Action against climate inaction.
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
From December 1st till December 12th in Poznań, Poland, the next major United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held. This is an important mark on the way to the Copenhagen Conference, which is planned for 2009. Action is needed really urgently, therefore decisions have to be made soon. Poznań is supposed to give different parties the opportunity for discussions and negotiations on the issue of climate change, preparing the Copenhagen negotiations. (More information here.)
In Belgium a few days ago in Friends of The Earth launched a video, making part of "The Big Ask" campaign. Belgium wouldn't be Belgium, if the video wouldn't be available in Dutch and in English. Explained by a child. Take 5 minutes to listen! (Not living in Belgium? Look for The Big Ask campaign in your country.)
On December 6th worldwide the next Global Day of Action with international demonstrations on climate change will be held. What is planned in your country?
["Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction" - quote from "Mass destruction" by Faithless.]
The Korean War Veterans Memorial was authorized by Public Law 99-572 on Oct. 28, 1986 "…to honor members of the United States Armed Forces who served in the Korean War, particularly those who were killed in action, are still missing inaction, or were held as prisoners of war." The law established an advisory board of 12 veterans appointed by the president to coordinate all aspects of the memorial’s construction. The site is located adjacent to the Lincoln Memorial directly across the reflecting pool from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The American Battle Monuments Commission managed the project and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provided assistance. The architect of record is Cooper Lecky Architects. President Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young Sam dedicated the memorial on July 27, 1995. Since the dedication several modifications have been incorporated: a kiosk to provide shelter for National Park Service personnel and a computer system with data housing the "Honor Role," which was accessible to the public. Correcting accessibility issues and replacement of the lighting in the statuary and along the mural wall with a state-of-the-art fiber optic system were required. Reconstruction of the pool and tree grove by the National Park Service and Corps of Engineers to improve tree maintenance and operate the reflecting pool was completed in July 1999. The overall cost There are 19 statues sculpted by Frank Gaylord of Barre, Vt., and cast by Tallix Foundries of Beacon, N.Y. They are approximately 7’3" tall, heroic scale and consist of 14 Army, 3 Marines, 1 Navy, 1 Air Force. They represent an ethnic cross section of America with 12 Caucasian, 3 African American, 2 Hispanic, 1 Oriental, 1 Indian (Native American).Three of the statues are in the woods, so if you are at the flagpole looking through the troops, you can't tell how many there are, and could be legions emerging from the woods. The statues are made of stainless steel, a reflective material that when seen in bright sunlight causes the figures to come to life. The blowing ponchos give motion to the column, so you can feel them walking up the hill with the cold winter wind at their backs, talking to one another. At nighttime the fronts of the statues are illuminated with a special white light; the finer details of the sculpture are clearly seen and the ghosts appear.
The juniper bushes are meant to be symbolic of the rough terrain encountered in Korea, and the granite stripes of the obstacles overcome in war. The Marines in column have the helmet chin straps fastened and helmet covers. Three of the Army statues are wearing paratrooper boots and all equipment is authentic from the Korean War era (when the war started most of the equipment was WWII issue). for the design and construction of the memorial and kiosk was $16.5 million.
There's been much that's happened of late that I haven't been able to
blog-log. I've been paralyzed into inaction by the hovering
guilt-cloud of an ugly manuscript that's been rearing its head.
Fortunately, the bastard (and I only call it that because it happens
to be on a crap topic) is on its last moments of the BBFK-respirator
and will soon be breathing on its own (for better or worse, I might
say). In early celebration, I figured I might start writing what I
*want* to write about, starting with the closing moments of my Free
Fallin' weekend (which I might add, no one guessed the concert that I
attended, yet...feel free to dig in...)
So cue up your Erasure and read on....
.......Gay Pride............
P and I, in our best attempt at pretending to *like* mornings, peeled
our bodies off of our respective hard surfaces: the floor and fold-out
chair. We shook off our alcohol-clouded heads, assembled our randomly
scattered belongings, and hit the local Hot Bagels. East coast bagels
hit the spot like no other breakfast food can, save maybe a good
English scone, and we were convinced and energized enough to plod on.
So off we went to our next destinations: the semi-local basketball
courts and outdoor running path. And run I did. Five miles worth of
it, fortunately through a nicely wooded section and with occasional
breaks for water. The cool-down mile walk was even accessorized with
some lovely company from another continent.
Fast-forward ahead past the non-movie worthy portions of the day, and
there we were driving North, on the road to NYC. My karma (damn, I
was a bastard in a previous life) kicked up then, and poor P found
himself with a ticket in hand, poor man. Yay, for a lack of towing
that weekend, but REALLY, going 12 miles over the speed limit is not a
big deal when you're on the highway and the speed limit is a lame
55mph anyways.
Once we did a little off-roading style crossing of a median, got lost,
and found, we managed to get into the least car-dense bridge or tunnel
leaving New Jersey. NYC was another matter though. Gay pride was all
hot and heavy, strutting through 5th Ave intermittently, between
stop-and-go traffic. I jumped out and into the fray. And oh, was it
worth it! There were gay versions of everything...gay rugby, gay
volleyball, gay volleyball, gay Jewish, gay Episcopalians...it went on
and on by genre. There were hotties and thongs and sweat (including
on me, at >92 degrees F), and loud thumping *good* dance music, and
unwanted freebies, and squirting water, and cops. It was all I could
hope for on a sunny Sunday on my own.
(My apologies to the heterosexual males. The parade offered next to no
eye candy for anyone other than gay men and heterosexual woman.)
Beyond The Silence // Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany #igersBlackForest #igersGermany Amidst the plantation of pines, I found myself walking the white. It had been there since the start, but the deeper I delved into the Black Forest, the more I marvelled at what was out there, just waiting to be found. See snow is silent, where as rain is not. They both fall from the sky above and alter our environment, yet snow seems to fall in the most graceful manner - potentially causing grievances, but in a gentle way. They both change the way we behave, what we do and where we go - at times making even the known seem unrecognisable. Some see it as beauty, others as pain. Some desire it, others despise it. Some don't experience it at all, but quite a lot do - more than you may realise - and if they don't, they likely know someone who has. *** In the silence, there is beauty. In the silence, there is wonder. In the silence there is sadness, there is joy, and sometimes thunder. *** Surrounded by silence we separate ourselves from the world in which we really are. Life feels still, sometimes seeming like stagnation - other times like well earned time off. But the thing with focussing too much on the inaction is that we forget there really is no such thing. Everything keeps moving forward, tip-toeing into the future flux. Change is inevitable, such is life. It always has been, it always will be. Embrace it if you can. If not, wait out the storm. All we have to do is learn to be okay with that. *** Covered, but not contained. Reflecting, but not restrained. *** Amidst the silence, there is noise. Beyond the silence, there is sound. Listen. Find. Be heard, be found. via Instagram ift.tt/2cvPPi9
Friday, February 9, 2018, a meeting was held in Auvers-sur-Oise entitled, Iranian people’s uprising, and international call for freedom of prisoners of the uprising. Maryam Rajavi and a number of European MPs from UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Malta, Lithuania, Switzerland and Poland participated.
Eden in a rare moment of inaction at Elizabeth Streb's Kid Action class, "which intertwines dance, athletics, boxing, rodeo, the circus and Hollywood stuntwork into bristling muscle-and-motion vocabulary."
A frozen statement on global climate change and inaction by the public and the Canadian government, while participating in the 2009 Polar Bear Swim in Vancouver, BC, Canada. What better time to raise the issue of the imminent threat facing Polar Bears (and the other environmental and societal impacts of climate change) than at the Polar Bear Swim?
Some of us just love living on the edge. I happen to meet one such guy today and he was nice enough to let me take some of his pictures. Strangely enough when I asked him for his e-mail his snaps to him, he said “I don’t have an one”.
Guess, then not everyone needs the Internet …. Just a set of wheels on a wooden board and some fresh air is good enough.
BTW, he literally is boarding on the edge …
Finally it’s spring …
We spend hours talking about how things might have been; of how things could be if we lived on histories and hopes. Revelation and revolution are within our grasp, if we would just wake up and risk a little. It's not the loss of money we fear - we're just terrified of giving up a little of our free time. We imagine that a day spent in the pursuit of anything less than total success will make us just another failure. But in reality, it reveals us as a people of faith, individuals with vision enough to see beyond the hand in front of our faces. It's no life to spend the summers inside, treating all seasons like winter while we whimper "what-ifs" to the ever-passing moment. We worry ourselves to sleep, and what is the cost? Inaction, constant and ever-present. The moment to breathe that we've been trying to schedule never happens, and the only destination we reach is the end of the work week or the end of the school year. We move our lives forward if they let us, when we should be shouting, "Enough!" to the constantly badgering noise. We live in borrowed lives, paying everyone we love with money earned from a living we hate.
In ancient naval tradition, a captain would go down with his ship. He was willing to sink with his livelihood, because without it, he had nothing. If you're a farmer, an artist, a builder, or a wanderer, it's the only way to be. You can't just stand on the bow of the boat with your lifejacket on, ready to abandon ship at the first sign of an iceberg. You've got to tie yourself to the mast of your passion, climb to the peak of your burgeoning labor, and give birth. Your love will be your savior. Just when darkness falls and all hope seems lost, you'll be able to hold that holy spyglass to your eye every time and say, "I see land!"
FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 file photo, Bangladeshi garment workers produce clothing at a factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. As Bangladesh reels from the deaths of hundreds of garment workers in a building that collapsed Wednesday, April 24, 2013, the refusal of global retailers to pay for strict nationwide factory inspections is bringing renewed scrutiny to an industry that has profited from a country notorious for its hazardous workplaces and subsistence level wages. After the Tazreen factory fire killed 112 garment workers in November 2012, clothing brands and retailers continued to reject a union-sponsored proposal to improve safety throughout Bangladesh’s $20 billion garment industry. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File)
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